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...also had some advice for the next drunken college student who decides to break a Bartley's window: "You should be breaking glass on Friday and Saturday nights. Not Monday nights. I'm there on Friday and Saturday nights when all the glass breaking should be happening. Not a Monday night. You kids should be studying...
Shifting shadows welcome the viewer to “The Glass Menagerie,” Tennessee Williams’ 1944 play about family and failure. Hung from the ceiling of the Loeb Experimental Theater, sewn plastic figures glisten against thick sheets of cloth. As the audience enters, the wonderful and mysterious sculpture—designed by Sara J. Stern ’12—sways and sighs. It looms over the neat and trim set and veils it with a hesitating shade...
...besotted by male attention. She wants the same youth for her 23 year-old daughter, Laura. But Laura (the wide-eyed Rachel A. Stark ’11—a Crimson news editor), who is slightly disabled and cripplingly shy, instead devotes her days to her collection of glass animals. In and out clamors Tom (David J. Smolinsky ’11), Laura’s exuberant and adventurous younger brother, who dreams of a life more exciting than his job at a shoe factory can offer...
Williams called “The Glass Menagerie” a “memory play,” which suggests that the piece should run more on its atmosphere than concrete facts. Williams himself has a poet’s weakness for symbols, and the play needs a certain fragility to keep it from being overly melodramatic. The current production in the Loeb sets the right mood and proceeds with confidence. When it plods, it also does so with charm...
...ICA—with its waterfront location, glass and metal architecture, and massive windows streaming natural light—not only stands up to, but compliments the exhibit, holding its own against the Modernist juggernauts Tate Modern in London and Whitney Museum of American Art where “Roni Horn aka Roni Horn” had previously traveled. The building itself opened at the end of 2006—the first new art museum built in Boston in nearly 100 years...